by Craig Roth | January 31, 2011 | Comments Off
Lotusphere 2011 is in full force and the faithful have returned to Orlando. With so many of the attendees sporting the black and yellow backpacks handed out at registration, the buffet lines resemble a swarm of bees in a hive. IBM continued the tradition of an opening performance whose goal seems to be to wake [...]
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by Craig Roth | December 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
I describe the core capabilities of enterprise attention management as pulling important information forward and pushing less important information back. When analyzing the attentional characteristics of a system, those are the two capabilities I check for. Notifications play an important part of pulling important information forward, so information workers are more likely to notice important [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 4, 2010 | Comments Off
IBM announced Project Northstar at their 2010 Exceptional Web Experience conference this week. I blogged on the details and my first impressions previously (see here), but wanted to save a side thought about the potential for assisting with information overload for a separate entry. IBM defined their vision in a good diagram with 3 main [...]
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by Craig Roth | July 22, 2010 | Comments Off
I saw an interesting demonstration this week of how WebSphere Portal v7 can be hosted in a cloud using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Currently, there are a few specialized portal-as-a-service providers (like Covisnt) and many ASPs will host a portal for you, but being able to take your own WebSphere Portal servers and [...]
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Category: Cloud IBM Lotus Portals Tags: cloud portal ibm websphere
by Craig Roth | July 21, 2010 | Comments Off
What’s the difference between the real universe and the IT universe? In the real universe, the grand unification theory is unknown, but an eternal truth. In the IT universe the grand unification theory is known with certainty, but changes every 10 years. IBM announced its new grand unification vision (dubbed “Northstar”) at its Portal Excellence [...]
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Category: IBM Lotus Portals Tags: ibm, northstar, portal, websphere
by Craig Roth | July 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday, IBM announced WebSphere Portal 7.0 and Lotus Web Content Management 7.0 will be ready to ship on September 1, 2010 (normally I’d link to a press release, but strangely I can’t find one). Some highlights pointed out were accommodation of other portlet models (widgets), out of the box social software (blogs, wikis inherited from [...]
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Category: IBM Lotus Portals Tags: ibm, northstar, portal, websphere
by Craig Roth | June 29, 2010 | Comments Off
The debate about whether collaborative app developers are shifting from IBM Lotus Domino to Microsoft Office SharePoint has been raging for quite a while. Related questions such as whether Microsoft spends more on marketing or just benefits from “shiny new thing” syndrome are also fun to debate. I won’t step into that debate today, but [...]
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